How to get out of a virus frozen screen on your computer.

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So you have a frozen computer screen or a screen you cannot get past? Here is my story.

I started to write this post yesterday, and saved it as a draft.

In the meantime my daughter was working on her finals for school, and I told her about this Liza Moon virus and warned her if anything odd came up and told her she was infected, let me see it. The next day she was doing a google image search for her paper and clicked an image and got the warning. She brought the computer to me and I was honestly surprised. There it was, the lizamoon virus. Luckily, she never clicked anything, so she did not get infected. But this is a very tricky one. It looks legit, and I feel bad for all the innocent people who will get this. Especially the senior citizens. When I work on computers for Seniors it breaks my heart how messed up their computers usually are. Spyware, extra spammy toolbars, and just all kind of annoyances that make it so unpleasant to work online. What happens is a little spoof window comes up telling you are infected, and then even if you try to close the window to get off you are in trouble. Either choice leaves you with the virus window there and ready to run. There is a way to get out of this type of situation however.

What you want to do is hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete, all at the same time. This will bring up your Task Manager. Next select Processes in the Windows Task Manager. You will then see the fake process name in the list. ( In this case I think it is called “Windows Stability Center” for this Virus) Just click it and select “end process”. Then get out of there and off that website! Or you can try the shorter set of Alt + f4, which closes a window.

You will have just averted a disaster. By the way you can use this same trick for any program you get stuck on. I use it all the time when Firefox, or IE freeze on me or hang or a program stops working.

I made a fast video for you on how to do this. This is on Windows 7 so it is a little different looking than if you have XP, but the process is the same. View in full size, it is nice and clear.

Many viruses will lock you out of your computer by giving you a frozen computer screen or a start up screen you cannot get past. You can actually get past the fake screen. Watch my video.

Here is a good video that will show you exactly how the virus looks and works. I have the HD version, click the button to make it full size when you watch. It will help see what is going on with the virus fake ware and fake screens.

I have just upgraded Firefox to 4.0, and IE to IE9.
I must say I really like both of these updates. They are sleek, lean and run fast.
But of course as always some of my favorite addons stopped working , and then there are other things that always annoy until you can figure it out and get used to doing things in a “slightly” new way.

But for now, where the heck did the back drop down menu go?
Watch this:

How to exclude a site in a google search, exclude sites in google search, or block a website, and sites in google search.

The site that forced me to finally figure out how to block or sites google search was about.com. It is frustrating to keep getting websites in google search you wish you could block or exclude.

One way to exclude sites google search from a site you do not want is to add -about.com or -whateversite.com you do not like, so your search looks like this, “turkey recipe -about.com” .

This is what I used to do until I discovered this: http://www.google.com/reviews/t (this will not work unless you are logged into your google account first). If you don’t have one, sign up for one, they are free.

This allows you to permanently block or exclude websites you do not want in your search results. If you change your mind, you can go back and edit your choices, so no worries there. So block away and enjoy better results that YOU want in your searches.

Good luck with blocking sites you want to avoid and to exclude sites google search

Also please leave a comment and tell me what sites you were going crazy enough on to find this post.

This post is my highest traffic post! People from all over the world land here trying to block sites that they do not want to see in their results.

2013 update: Google has abandoned this set up.You can no longer exclude sites google search using this method.

Manage Blocked Sites (DISCONTINUED)

Dear users,

We have discontinued offering the blocked sites feature for now. We continue to offer the Chrome extension for blocking sites, and will reconsider features for blocking unwanted search results in the future.

You may download your blocked sites list as a text file below.

Even though people have kicked and screamed about it, they turned this feature off and said it would be brought back and they never did. I did find a very simple and very effective method using an extension you install on Chrome. You must use Chrome as your browser to use this system, but it works like a dream. I made a video to explain it step by step. I will say Chrome has replaced Firefox now as my primary browser. It has tons of great addons and extentions and it runs very fast. If you have not tried it yet, give it a try. You can download it here.

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